Comment on Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home

• gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It can be turned on by the IT dept in a large office. It has a different icon for in office network connection vs not. Not every IT dept uses it. Some treat other employees like adults, for instance.

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  • corroded@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Having my status turn yellow when I so much as look away from my screen is bad enough. I really hope this “feature” stays off.

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  • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And this is why I haven’t installed Teams on my personal computer. If it was less invasive, I would, but it’s just potential bossware masquerading as “productivity tools.”

    That shit stays on my work computer, and I just VPN into it.

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    • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m not putting any work stuff on by home computer. I’m not giving work admin rights to that.

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  • candybrie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Do VPNs make that feature kind of pointless? We can’t access most things from home without going through a VPN. Every where I’ve worked (and gone to school) was like that.

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It should be noted that work location is a self report tool designed to make collaboration easier so colleagues can know where you are and potentially align their work from home schedules with yours.

    We use a slack app for the same purpose, and it works great.

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    • gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s not just a self reporting feature it seems. Our IT accidentally turned it on (as I understand) for a day by adding building info to one of the supervisors account. It then showed if you were in the same location (building) than your supervisor.

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      • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Do you mean it used the information from AD/Entra or was it tracking you?

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• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  At a lower level your IT dept logs the IP address you’re accessing m365 resources from.

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes the security logs absolutely log that, but I haven’t heard of HR forcing IT to actually use those logs for discovering where people work.

    We don’t give a shit and have better things to do.

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